The film market, which has been suspended for a long time, has recently frequently released big moves, introducing many high-quality classic films. Among them, Japanese movies have also been scheduled several times in succession, including the feature film "The Long Farewell" released in Japan last year, "Masquerade Hotel" co-starring Takuya Kimura and Masami Nagasawa, and among the many best films, the best reputation of the public is Takeshi Kitano's "Kikujiro's Summer".
Whether it is the familiar Soundtrack of Hisaishi Jean or the warm tone of Takeshi Kitano's film, people are looking forward to meeting it on the big screen. It has been 21 years since the release of "Kikujiro's Summer", and it has always attracted a large number of fans in China, with nearly 380,000 people scoring on Douban and a high of 8.8, which is permanently in the Douban top 250 film list.
Just like the poster said "Reunion at the end of summer 2020", the most healing and appropriate thing this summer is a "Kikujiro's Summer". It was released in Japan in 1999 and was nominated for Best Picture at the 52nd Cannes Film Festival. It is a fresh and warm road movie, and unlike most of the timely walking style in Europe and the United States, he is more of a summer storyteller.
It is mainly about a boy in the third grade of elementary school, Masamune (Yusuke Sekiguchi), who lost his parents and ran away at an early age, and lived with his grandmother since childhood. The idea of finding his mother has been germinating in his mind, and this summer, with the help of his neighbor's aunt (Kishimoto Kashiko) and her husband Kikujiro (Takeshi Kitano), they embark on a journey full of unknowns on the scorching road of the scorching sun. On the first day of this journey, Kikujiro lost almost all of the travel expenses given by his wife because of gambling, and in desperation, the two began to walk and ride all the way to his mother's house, but what they got was unsatisfactory, and the frustrated return trip was full of purity and emotion. Encountering all kinds of passers-by, a series of unexpected and plain tears, they go all the way through the trivialities of trouble and healing.
With family affection as the main line, the pace is slow, connected by countless small things, mixed with Kitano Takeshi's humor, the whole movie gives people the feeling of warmth and simplicity and reality. It deserves to be called "the most tender film" under takeshi Kitano's lens.
The prototype of the idle kikujiro uncle in the film is Kitano Takeshi's biological father Kitano Kikujiro, and in Kitano Takeshi's description, his father gives him the impression of being a tyrannical, drunken and unreasonable bastard. On the other hand, the father was also the breadwinner of the family, a diligent painter. Would take him to the beach and would laugh and play with him. Multifaceted and complex memories are like unpredictable human nature. In this journey of Kikujiro, we witness and accept all good and evil, and there is Takeshi Kitano's release of childhood and his father in laughter.
Jumping out of this familiar film, the famous director Kitano Takeshi must be no stranger to everyone, he said, "Although it is hard, I will still choose that kind of hot life." He said, "Boring life, I don't want to die." "Sincere and clear life motto, chic and sober attitude towards life." Regarding his legendary life, it is difficult to interpret word by word, and perhaps in this summer, in this lens, you can spy a little bit of his needlework and deviance. Text/There are fish